Skirt-hanger.



- UNITED STATES y PATENT OFFICE.'

, JERRY o. LIBERTY, or EAST'HAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNoRoF ONE'-l fHALE To THOMAS E. LYNN, or EASTHAMPTQN, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKIRT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed October l5, 1906. Serial No. 338,912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JERRY C. LIBERTY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Skirt-Hangers, of which the ollowing is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of this invention is toprovide a skirt supporter or hanger ofextreme simplicity and cheapness of construction, and one which is ofentire efficiency and unusually desirable.

The improved Skirt supporter is hereinafter fully described inconjunction with the accompanying drawings, and defined in the claims.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a perspective view of the supporter as inAuse with a skirt engaged thereby and hung therefrom. Fig. 2 is aperspective view showing certain particular formations of a length ofwire from which prominent portions of this device are constituted. Fig.3 is an edgewise view of a coil including part of the deviceillustrating ar slight modification in the centralizing means for thesupfporting rod of the hanger. Fig. 4 is a view o the parts shown inFig. 3 as seen at right angles thereto. Fig. 5 is a perspectiverepresentation of the parts and formations provided for constituting theconnection between the supporting rod and the garment holding arm of thehanger.

In the drawings,-A represents a centrallyT and vertically arrangedsupporting rod by which the opposite upwardly and outwardly extendedhanger arms B B are sustained. Said rod has a hook a at its upper endand an eye b at its lower end, engaged around the tubular metallicconnection piece c.

The arms B B and the provisions for rendering them resilient are allcomprised within a single length of suitably stout spring wire havingcoils, bends, formations and arrangements as follows: The single lengthof wire is formed by the middle portion thereof into a horizontal eye dand has portions near the middle formed into a plurality of coils f farranged in vertical planes at opposite sides of the axis of the eye,the wire comprises portions 10, 10, op ositely upwardly and outwardlyextendedD in continuation from said coils, formed with return bent loops12, 12, to make' stops or shoulders, thence extended with downward andoutward inclination in members 13, 13, while their extremities 14,

14, are downwardly and inwardly arranged more or less nearly parallelwith the portions 10 and have eyes 15, 15, at their approximate endswhich are engaged about the tube or connection piece C. The intermediateportion of the supporting rod is centralized by enga ing through theaforementioned horizonta eye d. The downwardly and outwardly inclinedmembers 13, '13, of the symmetrical appliance are encircled by tubularwood or other non-metallic pieces g g which, advantageously, may beupwardly tapered,- these pieces serving to prevent the skirt frombecoming creased across the waist band and from becoming rusted orotherwise marked by the wire. The connection piece C is preferably madein the form of a tubular rivet, originally with one end upset orflanged, the opposite end to be also upset after the assemblage of theparts in the course of construction of the device.

With an inspection of Fig. 1, it is to be understood that the supporterhaving a skirt engaged thereon at the downwardly and outwardly inclinedopposite portions 13, Y13, is

under a degree of stress or tension as imposed by the weight of theskirt and operating against the reaction of the coils, so that the armsB comprising the upper and lower lengths of Wire 10, 10, and 14, 14, areslightly depressed to less steep inclinations than would normally beassumed thereby if the garment were to be lifted off from the hanger.

I may, as a means for centralizing the supporting wire or rod Arelatively to the opposite inclined arms, employ, instead of thehorizontal eye d, a cylindrical block d2 having a vertical hole d3 boredtherethrough, such block being located inside of the coils f f andtraversed through the vhole d3 therein by' the intermediate portion ofthe supporting rod.

I claim 1. A skirt supporter consisting of a central vertical suspensionrod, and a pair of oppositely arranged frame-likeV arms, each consistingof separated upwardly and outwardly extended, approximately parallel,upper and lower portions of wire, having a uniting portion at theirouter ends upwardly and inwardl inclined, the lower portions of botharms having connections with a lower por- IOO tion of the suspensionrod, and the upperwire I portions of the arms having coils at the middleof the device, and means of engagement between an intermediate portionof the suspension rod and the coil-provi ded portions of said arms,whereby the latter are restrained in symmetrically opposite positions.

2. A skirt supporter consisting oiA a centralvertical suspension rod,having a hook atits upper end, and a pair of oppositely arrangedframe-like arms, each consisting of separated upwardly and outwardlyapproximately parallel upper and lower portions of wire having a unitingportion at their outer ends upwardly and inwardly inclined, and providedwith tubular non-inetallie pieces in encircling engagement therearound,the lower Wire portions of both arms having connections with a lowerportion of the suspension rod, and the upper wire portions of the armshaving coils at the middle ofthe device, andmeans of engagement betweenan intermediate portion of the suspension rod and the coil providedportions of said arms, for the purpose set forth.

3. A skirt support comprising a single length of wire, the intermediateportion thereof being formed into a plurality of coils, and havingportions oppositely upwardly and outwardly extended, and thence returnbent and extended with a downward and outward inclination, and havingtheir extremities downwardly and inwardly bent and arrangedsubstantially parallel with the aforesaid portions incliningly extendedfrom the coils, together with a supporting red to the lower portion ofwhich the proximate extremi ties of the said wire are connected, saidsupporting rod having at its intermediate portion a disposition betweensaid coils, and means for retaining said rod centrally relatively to thecoil comprising wire formed parts.

4. A skirt support comprising a single length ol' wire, the middleportion of" which is formed in a horizontal eye, having portions nearthe middle formed into a plurality ol' vertical coils, having portionsoppositely upwardly and outwardly extended, from said coils, and formedwith return bent loops,

thence extended with a downward and outward inclination, and havingtheir extremities downwardly and inwardly bent and arrangedsubstantially parallel with the aforesaid. portions oppositely extendedfrom the coils, together with a supporting rodv to the lower portion ofwhich the proximate extremities of the said Wire are connected, saidsupporting rod having at its intermediate portion an engagement throughsaid horizontal eye, and. having a hook at its upper end.

5. In a skirt support the combination with a single length of wire, theintermediate portion thereof being formed into a plurality of coils, andhaving portions oppositely upwardly and outwardly extended, thencereturn bent and extended with a downward and outward inclination, andhaving their extremities downwardly and inwardly, bent, arrangedsubstantially parallel with the aforesaid portions oppositely extendedfrom the coils, and formed with eyes at their ends, of a connectionpiece about which said eyes are engaged, and having a lower end eye e11-gaged with said connection piece, having at its intermediate portion adisposition between said coils, and means for retaining said rodcentrally relatively to the coilcomprising 'wire formed parts.

Signed by me at Springiield, Mass., in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

JERRY C. LIBERTY. Witnesses:

THos. F. LYNN,

WM. S. BELLows.

